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Ello social network

Considering a move to the new Ello social network that is ad free and doesn’t sell one’s data. It’s in beta now and is invitation only. Any of my techie friends out there interested in an invite to give it a whirl? Facebook has major problems and it would be wonderful if a viable alternative […]

Superior design

Gotta love it… a $200 Samsung home camera that only allows static IP assignment if you use the wired network port. If you want to use wifi, then you’re restricted to dynamic IP. Wtf! This had to be designed by some marketing schmuck that knows nothing about networking. Dynamic vs static IP has absolutely jack […]

Major loss

Well I am BEYOND pissed off. The very expensive high speed/capacity memory card in my very expensive “pro-sumer” camera just failed. The Canon 70D gave absolutely no indication that there was a problem. It allowed me to see images in preview and then simply and silently didn’t write them to the bad card. I lost […]